EXPLAINER: How to stage Olympics in a snow-challenged city
By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Dry Beijing barely gets any winter precipitation, which makes this year’s Winter Games the first…
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By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Dry Beijing barely gets any winter precipitation, which makes this year’s Winter Games the first…
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By DAVID KLEPPER and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press A decision by Twitter and Facebook to ban former President Donald Trump a year ago has prompted…
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By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former executive director of a surgical center who helped her physician husband bilk…
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By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the White House were bracing for bad economic news. But instead they got a…
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The Associated Press Stock indexes ended mixed and Treasury yields jumped Friday as Wall Street’s expectations rise that the Federal Reserve may…
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The Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Amazon, Snap rise; Ford, Clorox…
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By DAVID A. LIEB and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Renewed legal challenges have been mounted in about half the states against a requirement from…
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By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A major California gas utility must pay a nearly $10 million fine and reimburse…
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By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Investigators say a man who allegedly kidnapped an employee at the western Colorado ranch owned by…
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fine art isn’t just nice to look at. It’s also attractive to criminals trying to…
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS will begin offering limited Saturday walk-in help for taxpayers this tax season.…
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By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The interior solicitor in the Biden administration says the mineral rights under the original…
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By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has continued its endorsement of Moderna’s…
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By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The message the U.S. jobs report sent Friday was a surprising one: Despite a surge in viral…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Pointing lasers at airplanes and helicopters is becoming a bigger problem. The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that…
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By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — It’s official: New York is now the largest sports betting market in America after just…
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By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Republican inquiry into Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election spurred on by former…
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By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is imposing sanctions on five senior members of Mali’s transitional government,…
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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has extended tariffs imposed by former President Donald Trump on most solar…
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By ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Wall Street Journal’s publisher, News Corp., says it has been hacked,…
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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon workers and organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, are making door-to-door house…
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BERLIN (AP) — Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom says German ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has been nominated to join its board of…
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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kohl’s says that recent offers to purchase the department store chain undervalue its…
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By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designating critical habitat for a Nevada…
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By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A giant, $500 million yacht reportedly being built for Amazon…
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A judge has suspended an order by Northern Ireland’s agriculture minister to halt border checks on…
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By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — A law requiring most adults in Austria to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is…
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hoped to get a grip on his government after weeks of scandal.…
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and the United States have agreed to resume trade in oysters, clams, mussels and scallops from the end of…
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